San Francisco-based high technology and litigation law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP recently has been beefing up its Orange County operations with two key additions.
Last month, David Hayes joined the Irvine office as a partner in its business and technology group. Hayes had been a partner in the Newport Beach office of Los Angeles-based O’Melveny & Myers, specializing in high-tech intellectual property for five years, most recently heading that company’s tech group covering Southern California.
Brobeck managing partner James Burns said he considers Hayes “one of the most visible technology attorneys in Southern California’s intellectual property market.”
Brobeck, a company specializing in high tech, intellectual property and complex litigation, has played a key role in helping many of OC’s key tech companies like Broadcom and buy.com Inc. go public.
Hayes had also spent five years as an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Before entering law school, Hayes had been a software engineer for over five years.
In another major hire, Brobeck last week announced that Kirk Maldonado joined the firm’s Irvine office as a partner in its tax group.
Before joining Brobeck, Maldonado was a principal at the Costa Mesa office of LA-based Riordan & McKinzie, where he developed stock-based and deferred compensation plans for executives, as well as advising on the implementation of employee stock purchase plans.
Prior to joining Riordan & McKinzie in 1989, Maldonado worked in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service following his graduation from law school.
Brobeck posted $476 million in 2000 revenue, a 52% jump over the previous year and was recently named by Fortune magazine as one of America’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
The firm has 950 attorneys in 13 offices nationally, as well as joint venture Brobeck Hale and Dorr offices in the United Kingdom and Germany. n
